What is happening in GMAIL in the background ?

Do you wonder how this GMAIL works ? What is happening when you click the Send button in Gmail ? Here is the presentation from Google which is really informative . I would like to share this with you all . http://www.google.com/green/storyofsend/desktop/

How to post Google + updates into facebook wall

How to post your google plus posts into facebook wall?

UPDATED ON 13th November 2012
Use Facebook App RSS Graffiti.

Top 100 People on Google Plus

Google unveiled its new social networking site Google+ , aimed at making online sharing selective and more like real life.

Who is the Top Person on Google+?

It is Mark zuckerBerg! Who would gues that ?
The founders of Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin are embarrassingly at positions two and three.

Top 100 Users on Google Plus

Google Plus Profile Badge widget for Wordpress

A cool , simple sidebar widget for Google Plus profile badge ..

How to add Google plus profile badge in Wordpress Widget area ?

1. Download googlecards.zip and unzip
2. Upload the unzipped googlecards folder to the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
4. Go to the ‘Widgets’ menu in WordPress and add the widget to your sidebar.
5. Choose a title for the widget and input your google+ id. (You can find your google+ id by going to your profile, it is the 21 digit number e.g. plus.google.com/YOUR_ID_IS_HERE)

Twitter Version 2.0.10(2010)

Twitter has unveiled its new version( say version 2.010) that changes the interface, introduces new features and promises to be "faster, easier and richer." This will have a double-paned view of things. Quite frankly, it uses a lot of the wasted space on the page.

Each pane will take up half the screen. The left-hand column will contain the regular old timeline of Tweets. Click on a Tweet, and the right hand pane shows the details of the Tweet, including the user profile of the sender, the conversation it's in, and more. Videos and pictures can be seen in the right pane.

Some of the welcomed features of this new twitter are as follows:

1. Two-pane interface:
   The new interface is clean and well organized. Lists and trends are easier to view (requiring less scrolling) than with the old Twitter.
2. Embedded media:
   New Twitter will display the photo on the right half of the page . You'll also see more information such as other tweets that have linked to that same image. Videos, too, will be embedded. If you click on a tweet containing a link to a YouTube video, the video will play right on right-hand pane instead of redirecting you to YouTube. This eliminates the hassle of closing multiple browser tabs once you're done viewing. 
3. Continuous scrolling:
   In the new Twitter, the "more" button at the bottom of the page used to load older tweets will be gone. Now, you'll be able to scroll through older tweets continuously, without having to manually load more.

PHP script for getting tweet updates

Here is the php script to get updates from a twitter account.

   $uname = "YourUserName";
   $url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$uname.rss";
   $rss = @file_get_contents($url);

  if($rss)
  {
          $xml = @simplexml_load_string($rss);
          if($xml !== false)
           {
                 foreach($xml->channel->item as $tweet)
                  {
                       echo $tweet->pubDate."\n";
                       echo substr($tweet->description,10)."\n";
                   }
            }
           else
             {
                   echo "Error: RSS file not valid!";
             }
       }
       else
      {
          echo "Error: RSS file not found, Invalid username";
      }
?>

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Downloading youtube videos

There are lot of ways you can download youtube videos.I will mention a few online downloaders..

Different methods are here:

1.   Replace youtube in the URL by voobys

     If the url of the video is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k2_HHrk8Y8 ,change it to  http://www.voobys.com/watch?v=4k2_HHrk8Y8 , You can download the video from this link.

   2) Add "kiss" to the youtube URL

         So change the above url as  http://kissyoutube.com/watch?v=4k2_HHrk8Y8
 

   3) Add ok to the URL
           Change url as http://okyoutube.com/watch?v=4k2_HHrk8Y8

  4) Some other webpages where you can download youtube videos:

• Clipnabber 
• Keepvid
• Download Youtube videos
• SaveVid
• SaveTube

  5) For those who prefer command line terminal , use Youtube-dl package . You can then  download the video by typing   youtube-dl 

But remember downloading vids is forbidden by the Terms of Service of youtube and in some cases illegal.You can watch them on YouTube and you can, providing the video owner lets you, "embed" them to other sites using the code beside the video you want to show off elsewhere.  And you can use the email function to send them to people who you want to show it to.
All that is done on YouTube, directly on the video's page itself.  :)

tweeting from the BASH terminal

i feel this an awesome script..tweet from command line terminal in linux..
script is as follows:

#!/bin/bash

username="yourUserName" ;
password="yourPassword";

URL="http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml" ;

if [ $(echo "$1" | wc -c ) -gt 140 ]
then
echo "Whoo: Its more than 140 characters"
exit 0;
fi

result=$(curl -u $username:$password -d status="$1" $URL) ;

exit 0 ;

save this in some file name "tweet" and make it executable ( chmod +x tweet )
And for simplicty add an alias ..
Now tweet from terminal using the command

tweet "tweeting from the command line"